Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) s Georgian autonomous filmmakers with a special programme. Dedicated to the work of filmmakers protesting against restrictions on freedom of expression, the programme is entitled "Flowers are not silent. Georgian independent film on the rise". The programme will be screened at the 28th edition of PÖFF in cooperation with the  Georgian Film Institute.  Founded in 2019 by a collective of visionary fi...

Jigra, Review: JigrAlia Though ‘jigar’ literally means liver in Hindustani, ‘jigra’ means courage, guts and gumption, essential qualities of a brave-heart. In an era of super-heroes and super-heroines, the title gives little away. So you try to relate the title to its star, Alia Bhatt. Having made a terrific impact with her performances in the last 2-3 years, you feel this might be a new avenue, an action showcase, for her considerable talent. You would not be far from...

By Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent   “Imagine today’s Society as a branch of civilization about to reach a dead end.” You want to defend and explain Francis Ford Coppola’s MEGALOPOLIS just as much as narrator Laurence Fishburne, who tries to make the case during the movie that this oddball gorgeous landscape of mildly psychotic imagery is historic. You want to love Adam Driver and his maniacal urban hive-builder genius as someone amazing and heretofore...

Andy Samberg as David E Scherman? Kate Winslet as Lee Miller LEE Photo By Kimberley French posted by Robin Menken    Lee Miller was a fashion model IT girl before becoming the radical war correspondent whose intimate images of  the siege of St Malo, and the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald have become some of the most famous images of World War ll. Discovered on the street by Condé Nast, who supposedly stopped her from...

Soy Nevenka / I Am Nevenka, directed by Iciar Bollain, has carried off the Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award given, for the third year running, by the Basque Government in the framework of the San Sebastian Festival, to the film that best reflects the values of sustainability and solidarity as the key flagships of the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The award comes with 20,000 euros for the majority producer of the winning feature film. The jur...

The International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg will officially open on 7 November with the German premiere of ›Sharp Corner‹, an absorbing psychodrama starring Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders, in which a man’s midlife crisis spirals out of control ...

DISNEYLAND PARIS September 2024   by Emmanuel Itier “The Magic Kingdom” is indeed the perfect name for “Disneyland Paris” ( https://www.disneylandparis.com/en-usd/ ). From the first minutes we reached out to our destination via the bullet train TGV we were transported, at once, into an enchanting land unlocking the child within and ready for the adventures of a lifetime. And adventures we had through the many and various Disney theme sections of the two parks: Di...

Feature Thriller to Have World Theatrical Premiere Followed by Digital and Cable Release in Mid-September   Stonecutter Media has acquired North American rights to The Path, the new feature thriller, written and directed by Tom Archdeacon, co-founder of Frost Pictures. The Path will have its world theatrical premieres on September 12 in New Jersey and September 19 in Beverly Hills and will be tentatively released digitally on September 24th on str...

Celebrating the Achievements of the Marché du Film Exhibitors at Cannes 2024. This year’s Marché du Film marked a historic and record-breaking edition, boasting over 15,000 accredited participants and more than 500 exhibitors in Cannes. This impressive turnout contributed to a vibrant and highly successful event. Congratulations are in order for all the Palais exhibitors whose films triumphed at Cannes, earning some of the festival’s m...

Don't miss, BRANDO WITH A GLASS EYE, a film by award winning writer-director, Antonis Tsonis.  This film makes its Marché Premiere on Monday 20th May, at the Olympia 2 Cinema, 5 Rue de la Pompe, 20:30 in Cannes.  This film has been hailed as "mesmerizing", "magnificent" & "jaw dropping". The producers and the writer-director will be in attendance. For all enquiries, please  [email protected] ...

In 2024, the Festival de Cannes launches a new competition dedicated to immersive works. In 2017, Alejandro González Iñárritu made history at the 70th edition of the Festival de Cannes with his groundbreaking virtual reality piece, Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible) marking the first immersive work ever presented as an official selection at a major film festival. Recognized for his pioneering vision, Iñárritu received a s...

The 2024 edition to spotlight 10 French & international literary works for film adaptation with a special selection dedicated to Switzerland & Taiwan. SCELF (Civil Society of French-Language Publishers) and the Marché du Film are pleased to announce the 11th edition of Shoot the Book!, set to take place at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes from 16 to 17 May 2024. For over a decade, the Shoot the Book! program has been a pivotal meeting point in ...

The new initiative aims to foster the international circulation of European IPs for new film adaptations. The Marché du Film, in partnership with the CNC – French National Center of Cinema and Moving Images, is excited to announce the launch of Cannes Remakes, set to debut at the film market edition from 14 to 22 May. Together with the CNC, and with the and collaboration of the Institute of Cinematography & Audiovisual Arts (IC...

The Producers Network, the Marché du Film’s dedicated platform for producers, is set to commence its activities earlier this year with an exclusive brunch, hosted in partnership with EUFCN — the European Film Commissions Network. The EUFCN, which represents 100 European film commissions in 32 countries, is a non-profit association dedicated to ing and promoting the European film industry and culture. Its various missions include organizing the share o...

David Cronenberg's latest horror feature The Shrouds starring Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger will have its World Premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.  The first look at the film was also revealed.     In the film, Karsh, 50, is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their...

Amaze on and on: Citadel: Honey Bunny (Hindi) Raj and D.K. The duo that always pay! They take-over Citadel from and name their series Honey Bunny. “We believe in giving titles that are in sharp contrast to the content of the show. (Well, what else would you say about The Family Man and Guns and Gulabs, for example?”). Honey and Bunny, co-incidentally, happen to be the names of the leading pair, Varun Dhawan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, in the series. This is Varun Dhawan’s stre...

Amaze on Prime video: PLOTT A LOTT GOTT Inviting us at 12 noon for lunch at a 5-star hotel was unusual. The practice is to invite you at 12 or 12.30 pm, and serve you lunch at any time between 3 and 5 pm. Oh, the price you pay for being a journalist! Proceedings begin at around 2 pm, and last for about 1- ½ --2 hours. Lunch dare not be served before the proceedings begin, or while they are on, because savvy organisers believe that starved journalists would wait, while ‘lunched&rs...

TECHNICOLOR GROUP: A FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSFORMATION World class businesses MPC, Mikros Animation, The Mill, Technicolor Games – to be housed under a new holding company: Technicolor Group A company in a sound financial position, with new money injection and moderate indebtedness Ambitious transformation underway to become a leading provider of visual experiences and cutting-edge technology in the dynamic world of visual storytelling Technicolor Group, the new holding company for Technico...

MIPCOM CANNES ORGANISER RX CONFIRMS THE LAUNCH OF MIP LONDON IN FEBRUARY 2025   MIPTV TO END RUN AFTER 61ST EDITION IN APRIL 2024 RX today announced the launch of MIP LONDON, a new industry market and networking event set to take place 24-27 February 2025, with a pre-opening on Sunday 23 February. The inaugural MIP LONDON will take place the same week as the 2025 London TV Screenings and is conceived as complementary to the existing annual gather...

Now in its 23rd year at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight ran from February 22 through March 7 and presented recent documentary features and short films from new and established artists. As in past editions, Doc Fortnight focused on innovative, experimental, and adventurous filmmaking approaches. The 2024 program included 13 features, six short films, three special seminars on Caribbean productions, landscape films, and a spotlight on Gelare Khoshgozaran, an int...

  SERIES ON THE BRIDGE SELECTION HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED   To be held from 24 to 26 April as part of the 43rd Istanbul Film Festival, Meetings on the Bridge’s ‘Series on the Bridge’ selection has been announced.   Meetings on the Bridge, with Anadolu Efes as the main er, continues to bring together producers, directors and screenwriters from Turkey with international professionals.   Series on the Bridge, sponsored by OGM Pictures, will present 6 s...

(Black Tea by Abderrahmane Sissako © Olivier Marceny / Ciné Studios / Archipel 35 / Dune Vision)   By M.R. D’Amico   Even before its world premiere at Berlinale 2024, Black Tea had generated strong interest among major international distributors, a promising start for the film’s journey into the global market. Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, after the amazing success of his first Oscar-nominated film Timbuktu in 2014, embarks here...

Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ action adventure “FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Nine years after Mad Max: Fury Road, the Australian director, screenwriter and producer George Miller’s famous saga’s is back on the Croisette! The highly anticipated Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be revealed in the presenc...

(Thinley Lhamo from Shambhala by Min Bahadur Bham, © Aditya Basnet / Shooney Films)   By M.R. D’Amico   It is the first Nepalese film to be in competition at Berlinale and one of the best surprises of the festival. In a Nepalese Himalayan village a young beautiful woman, Pema, starts her adult life with a polyandrous marriage to Tashi and his two younger brothe...

Kusum Ka Biyaah: A bridge that divides Jharkhand was carved out of the state of Bihar many years ago. Perhaps some people in either state and the governments have not yet reconciled to the partition. There appear to be irreconcilable differences between them. With this background comes a small indie film, Kusum Ka Biyaah (Kusum’s Marriage), that is set in the border areas of the two states and involves the marriage of a graduate girl called Kusum, from Bihar, to a colliery worker from J...